Moving to the American dream? (update)

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  Who's claiming power this election?

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  What's happening in battleground states?

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  All this month, the Throughline podcast is asking big questions about our democracy and going back in time to answer them.

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  Five years ago, we did an episode about the American dream.

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  What does it take to climb up that economic ladder?

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  And how real is that ladder anyway?

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  Well, since then, there's been kind of an explosion in answers to those questions led by work from Raj Chetty and his team based at Harvard.

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  They've got some new work out just recently.

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  So here's our original episode and then we'll talk with Raj Chetty about the latest insight into the American Dream from 2024.

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  Here is Karen Duffin.

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  Back in 2019.

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